10. `Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ib `Imran al-Daqqaq said: Muhammad ibn Ya`qub, on the authority of `Ali ibn Muhammad, on the authority of Sahl ibn Ziyad, on the authority of Muhammad ibn al-Walid whose title is Shabab al-Sayrafi, on the authority of Dawud ibn alQasim al-Jafri that I asked Abu Ja`far al-Baqir :

“May I be your ransom! What is the meaning of the Needless [al-Samad]?” He answered: “He is the Master on whom all depend in major and minor.”